Hillary Clinton had no direct role in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and is a "wee bit silly" for exaggerating the part she played, according to Lord Trimble of Lisnagarvey, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and former First Minister of the province."
"I don’t know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill [Clinton] going around," he said.
However, she did admire some stainless steel teapots while she was there, complimenting them for keeping the tea "so nice and hot".
I'm sorry, but this story is HILLARIOUS. I'm awful. I even smile at the name 'Lord Trimble,' the world 'silly', and the mention of 'teapots'.
I'm such a horrible person but this article is funny as hell.
To be fair, they did say she was nice to the ladies and invited them to drop by if they were ever in Washington.
"Once a peace deal was in place, Mrs Clinton supported women politicians and was always available if they visited Washington "to give them a pat on the back, give them moral support", he added.
"So in a classic woman politicky sort of way I think she was active...She was certainly investing some time, no doubt about it. Whether she was involved on the issue side I think probably not."
Yet it was agreed that she wasn't much help:
Steven King, a negotiator with Lord Trimble’s Ulster Unionist Party, argued that Mrs Clinton might even have helped delay the chances of peace. "She was invited along to some pre-arranged meetings but I don’t think she exactly brought anybody together that hadn’t been brought together already," he said. Mrs Clinton was "a cheerleader for the Irish republican side of the argument", he added.
here's the story:
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